Re: Microsoft IS spam

Re: Microsoft IS spam

By the way, very little of the 'spam' that has a 'From' of hotmail.com actually goes through microsoft-owned servers.

It's all 'forged' email going through open relays, usually in foreign countries like China. The spammers use free mail systems like hotmail and yahoo to collect feedback, or more likely, to never check but have something valid-looking for the recieving mail server. Hotmail has about as much power to do anything about this as you do to stop a Volcano in Asia from erupting.

I used to work anti-spam for WebTV. We'd occasionally see reports of WebTV boxes 'spamming', but since they aren't actually running a commercial OS (like a windows), and had no hard drive, it was, to put it mildly, extremely difficult to actually send spam from one of these in any sort of bulk fashion. And the messages we did get a hold of were all forged - you can see the actual delivery path in the full headers.

MS may be one of the most 'evil' companies ever, I wouldn't disagree, but you can't really blame much of the spam problem on them, particularly not the hotmail division.

Not surprisiing

This is not surprising. Microsoft itself spams(see Usenet's news.admin.net-abuse.email) forexamples; they host thousands of spammer domains(at MSN); they host tens of thousands of spammerdropboxes (at Hotmail); and they are one of the backersof completely idiotic "authentication" schemesthat have zero anti-spam value, and are, of course,merely thinly-veiled attempts to assert controlover email.

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He probably thought 2 years would be enough time for Microsoft to TAKE OVER THE INTERNETS! If he were in complete control he could stop spam. It's all you people's fault for not handing over control of the internets to Bill!!

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